Kleinig John
Department of Law & Police Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, NY 10019, USA.
Subst Use Misuse. 2006;41(6-7):815-25. doi: 10.1080/10826080600668670.
Accepting-for the sake of argument-our current legal policies concerning heroin use and its users, what ethical questions are raised for needle and syringe program (NSPs)? Do they weaken drug laws, send the wrong message or obscure the right message, do little to eliminate the harm of drugs, detract from alternatives, and/or constitute a counsel of despair? I suggest that in the absence of established better alternatives, NSPs constitute a morally acceptable and in some cases even desirable option despite the continued criminalization of injecting drug use. Yet they must be conceived and administered in ways that do not reinforce prevailing social prejudices.
为了便于讨论，我们暂且接受当前关于海洛因使用及其使用者的法律政策，那么针具和注射器项目（NSPs）会引发哪些伦理问题呢？它们是否会削弱毒品法律、传递错误信息或掩盖正确信息、在消除毒品危害方面作用甚微、与替代方案相矛盾，以及/或者构成一种绝望的劝告？我认为，在没有既定更好替代方案的情况下，尽管注射吸毒仍被定罪，但针具和注射器项目在道德上是可以接受的，在某些情况下甚至是可取的选择。然而，它们的构思和实施方式不能强化普遍存在的社会偏见。
